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minus-square@Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish74•2 years agoThe funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer’s little gag centuries later.
minus-square@telllos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink40•2 years agoI’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks. To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.
minus-square@Scrof@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink16•edit-22 years agoMaybe they’re deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.
minus-square@Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink9•2 years agoI don’t think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so
minus-square@CitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•2 years agoAlso, wouldn’t water erosion make them less deep not more, due to generally smoothing the stone?
minus-square@HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 years agoMaybe water pools in them long after it dries out on the surrounding brick, but whether still water still erodes stone I don’t know.
minus-square@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink3•2 years agoAlso like, this looks like stone, not brick…
minus-squareZellithlinkfedilink1•2 years agoWouldn’t he have needed to change the brick? If you flip it then it wouldn’t fit there any more since its shape is asymmetrical.
The funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer’s little gag centuries later.
I’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks.
To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.
Maybe they’re deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.
I don’t think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so
Also, wouldn’t water erosion make them less deep not more, due to generally smoothing the stone?
Maybe water pools in them long after it dries out on the surrounding brick, but whether still water still erodes stone I don’t know.
Also like, this looks like stone, not brick…
Wouldn’t he have needed to change the brick? If you flip it then it wouldn’t fit there any more since its shape is asymmetrical.
Shhhh just let it ride